. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus 3. SPURGE FAMILY. 455 3. Croton monanthogynus Michx. Single-fruited Croton. Fig. 2715. C. monanthogynus Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2; 215. 1803. Annual, monoecious, silvery green, rather densely stellate-pubescent and somewhat glandular. Main stem slender, 4'-8' high, simple, or sparingly branched above, topped by a 3-S-rayed umbel with rays s'-is' long, forked
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus 3. SPURGE FAMILY. 455 3. Croton monanthogynus Michx. Single-fruited Croton. Fig. 2715. C. monanthogynus Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2; 215. 1803. Annual, monoecious, silvery green, rather densely stellate-pubescent and somewhat glandular. Main stem slender, 4'-8' high, simple, or sparingly branched above, topped by a 3-S-rayed umbel with rays s'-is' long, forked or umbellately branched; leaves ovate or oblong, 5"-ii' long, entire or undulate, obtuse or subcordate at the base; petioles usually about half as long as the blades; staminate flowers clustered at the ends of erect peduncles, with 3-5 unequal calyx-segments, the same number of petals and scale- like glands, and 3-8 stamens; pistilulate flowers mostly solitary, on recurved pedicels, with 5 equal calyx-segments, no petals, 5 glands and 2 sessile 2-cleft stigmas ; capsule ovoid or oblong-ovoid, 2"-2i" long, i-2-celled; seeds oval or orbicular, variegated, minutely pitted, shining. In dry soil, North Carolina to Indiana and Kansas, south to Florida and Mexico. Prairie-tea. June-Oct. 4. Croton Lindheimerianus Scheele. Lind- heimer's Croton. Fig. 2716. Croton Lindheimerianus Scheele, Linnaea 25 : 580. 1852. Somewhat shrubby, whitish-tomentose. Stems erect, 4'-!$' tall, sometimes diffusely branched; leaves rather numerous, the blades ovate to oblong-ovate, ¥-2' long, obtuse or acutish, green above, undulate; petioles almost as long as the blades or shorter; pedicels i"-3" long, recurving; calyx slightly accrescent, its segments oblong or elliptic-oblong, becoming 2" long, slightly keeled in age; petals pubescent; capsules oval, 3"-3V' long, 3-celled, tomentose, truncate-obtuse at both ends, droop- ing; seeds oblong-elliptic, nearly 2" long. In
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